Happy Father's Day, Alec and Johnny!

Happy Father’s Day, Alec and Johnny!

Sunday, June 21st is Father’s Day, a day devoted to America’s fathers, young and old, living or passed to their reward.

On this auspicious occasion, I thought it apt to mention two of the nation’s most unusual daddies, actor, comedian, political activist, arch-leftist, Alec Rae Baldwin III, 2007’s Dad of the Year, and 2008’s Pop of the Year, none other than former North Carolina Senator John Reid Edwards who, sing hallelujah! is mulling a comeback!

It’s two years old now and Alec Baldwin’s daughter, Ireland, is now 13 or 14 but the recording of his vicious, threatening diatribe delivered to a child lives on forever in the annals of fatherhood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J0-ZatDHug.

The nasty harangue is nothing shy of verbal child abuse and the only reason she is identified above as “now 13 or 14″ is because her less-than-doting dad didn’t even seem to know her age when he called Ireland to rip into her for not making herself available for his loving calls.

Baldwin has since repented unleashing that string of epithets against his own daughter, suggesting he was pushed to the breaking point by estranged wife, Kim Bassinger, although he was fully aware he was leaving his message on his daughter’s voice mail.

He has fully recovered; no word on Ireland’s recovery, if any.

Not quite so baby-faced anymore, Johnny Edwards, was the unanimous pick in 2007 not because of his siring four children within the bounds of marriage to wife, Elizabeth, but to knocking up, to use Dirty Dave Letterman’s expression, former campaign worker, Rielle Hunter.

Putting the ultimate kibosh on his already-moribund presidential effort, poor Senator Edwards, he of the “two America’s” shtick, was caught almost literally with his johnny-pants down . . .

(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)